It’s here!!!
Folks!!! We are sooooo excited to present our official Eventing Nation cross country saddle pad from none other than Ecogold!!! We have a special Kentucky Limited Time Offer sale on these Go Eventing Secure saddle pads, and you’ll be able to buy them online, but you can also buy them at the booth at Kentucky and enter a drawing to win one while you’re there. It comes with the Eventing Nation patch on one side, #GoEventing on the other. Ride confidently as the air-flow fabric quickly evaporates moisture and the non-sip surface keeps your saddle in place, and look SO. DAMN. COOL.
U.S. Weekend Preview
Fair Hill International April H.T. & CCI-S (Elkton, MD) [Website] [Entries] [Ride Times] [Volunteer][Scoring]
Meadowcreek Park – The Spring Social Event (Kosse, Texas) [Website] [Entries] [Volunteer][Scoring]
Ocala International Festival of Eventing (Ocala, Florida) [Website] [Entries] [Ride Times][Volunteer] [Scoring]
River Glen Spring H.T. (New Market, TN) [Website] [Entries / Ride Times / Scoring]
Sporting Days Farm April H.T. III (Aiken, SC) [Website] [Entries] [Ride Times] [Volunteer] [Scoring]
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How much work should your young horse be in? This can be a contentious topic, but physiological studies have shown that horses receiving appropriate exercise in the first three years of life are better adapted — and commonly sounder — during their riding and driving careers later on, when compared to horses that were not exercised until their third or fourth year. As soft tissues like tendons and ligaments grow in these initial years of life, they are highly responsive to exercise stimulus. This means that while they are forming and growing, they can add power and elasticity and resilience based on input received from exercise. In other words, exercise leads to the development of higher quality tissues. In order to enjoy athletic lives later on, youngsters do need regular exercise, but the structure of their training should differ from that of a mature horse. Primarily, it should be shorter, slower, and avoid concussive skeletal forces. [How To Condition a Young Horse]
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Missed out on the action from Twin Rivers last weekend? In the second CCI4*-S to take place this season on the West Coast, it was James Alliston who topped the leaderboard, snagging the lead from initial frontrunner Tamie Smith and bringing home first and second aboard his rides Nemesis and Karma. Check out some of the USEA’s favorite behind-the-scene shots captured by Tina Fitch Photography. [Through The Lens: Twin Rivers 4*-S]
Jillian Newman’s journey to victory in the first-ever CCI1*-L held at Twin Rivers Ranch didn’t exactly have the start she imagined. She found her horse on Facebook, and instantly fell in love. “I liked his size, and he looked like a good boy, but he had a pink nose,” Newman said with a laugh. “I really liked his face. He looked like he had a kind eye.” Unfortunately, five days after the bay Irish Sport Horse gelding with a show jumping background in Ireland arrived in the United States in June 2021, he underwent colic surgery. It would be six months before Freeman could start riding her new horse, although that time did allow her to develop a bond that helped accelerate their journey through the eventing levels. [Strong Bond Between Jillian and Quincy Pays Off]
